2020 has been the most anxiety-ridden year of my life.
Pandemics, political tension, racial divide, car accidents, economic uncertainty, isolation, missed opportunities, deaths, job losses, career shifts, severed relationships, uprooted communities, closed memory-makers, and this is just the tip of an iceberg that runs deep in the human soul of desiring meaning, connection, purpose, security, safety, and hope.
I have had plenty of sleepless evenings, mind-racing trances, social media binges, Netflix numbing moments, heart-beating races.
Each anxious breath has been a prayer to God to rescue me from the fear, worry, and anxiety.
Today, I wanted to extend you my lifeline that I plan to meditate on this week; the simplicity is its strength:
“Let my soul be at rest again, for the Lord has been good to me.”
2020 isn’t the start and end of the God I serve.
The God I serve and love has been good to me.
There is so much goodness and beauty that I have experienced in my lifetime that I am not going to allow the darkness of 2020 to overshadow my ability to see the light that has come and is here now.
Today starts a vacation at Huntington Lake, and I am going to choose to consciously and intentionally vacate from the anxiety and rest my soul in the One that I know has been good, is good, and will forever be good.
God,
Thank You that 2020 isn’t the start and end of who You are. I choose to allow my soul to rest in You again. I know it is so easy for me to live in unrest. Anxiety vacate; it has no place in this soul. I can rest in You again because You have been so good to me. Give me eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to be open to the reminders of Your goodness and to live a life of gratitude that right now, no matter what is happening in this world, I am breathing and my heart is beating. Thank You for life and the life more abundantly that You desire me to experience as I rest in You. Amen!